"There are some works in fiction, no matter the media form, that are touchstones of inspiration for fans and creators. We creators of currents military science fiction have all been influenced by a number of other creators and works in our special sub-genre of the broad genre of science fiction, and I thought was high time that FWS made a list of the Top 10 most influential Military SF works. Bear in mind that some of these are more current and they are influencing not only us currently, but the future generations of MSF creatos to come…"Main pagelink

I go with Hammer's slammers and the forever war. But….Ian Banks view of interstellar war remains my favorite of all times. David Drake had the greatest " Handwavium" weapon of all times in the power gun but Banks had the best universe imaginable. Ruled by AI and major wars done in milliseconds.

'Various tabletop games' seriously, you couldn't give a name? Surely Trav' is the obvious one! Wouldn't have put Trek or Star Wars in there at all – none of it's military sci-fi, way too space opera. Personally I'd suggest that chunks of Smith's Lensman series are crunchier. I find the inclusion of 40K a bit meh, given how derivative it is, I might have been a bit more forgiving if it had listed some of the 40K novels. Battletech would be better option. Drake seems an obvious omission. I'd also swap Space Above and Beyond for BSG.

I'm a big fan of Traveller, but its influence seems to have waned. Yes, there's Firefly, and there's a bit of a hard sci fi renaissance, but much of that isn't really Traveller-y (either in the basic technology and adventure-type sense or in similarities to the Imperium).

Hammer's Slammers has been *enormously* influential, but The Forever War is really a dead end. It's a classic, it's still read, but I don't see much that has grown from it or built on it.